El canto del cuco (Cormoran Strike, #1) by

Robert Galbraith

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Original Title: El canto del cuco (Cormoran Strike, #1)

ISBN: 8467040394
ISBN13: 9788467040395
Autor: Robert Galbraith
Rating: 4.2 of 5 stars (1148) counts
Original Format: Paperback, 557 pages
Download Format: PDF, FB2, DJVU, iBook.
Published: November 14th 2013 / by Espasa / (first published April 18th 2013)
Language: Spanish
Genre(s):
Mystery- 5,501 users
Fiction- 2,740 users
Mystery >Crime- 1,545 users
Thriller- 641 users

Description:

La aclamada primera novela de Robert Galbraith narra la historia de una joven modelo con
problemas emocionales que cae desde su balcn de Mayfair en plana noche. Su cuerpo yace en
la calle nevada. Todo el mundo asume que ha sido un suicidio excepto su hermano, que contrata
los servicios del investigador privado Cormoran Strike para que se encargue del caso. Veterano
de guerra con secuelas fsicas y psicolgicas, la vida de Strike es un desastre. El encargo le da
cierto respiro econmico, pero cuanto ms profundiza en el complejo mundo de la modelo, ms
oscuro parece todo y ms se acerca Strike a un gran peligro. Un elegante misterio impregnado de
la atmsfera de Londres, desde las calles ms selectas de Mayfair hasta los pubs ocultos el East
End o el bullicio del Soho.

About Author:

This is a pseudonym for , the author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy.
NOTE: There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads.

Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling
(ne Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of
Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train
departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965.
Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran.
Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional
bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family
moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's
Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer
Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the
inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister.
She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole
and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down
(when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by
his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church
Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a
young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for
knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's
autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently
read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasnt particularly
happy. I think its a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she
had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She
attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a
technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish,
know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was
eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she
first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and
quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford
Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.

Other Editions:

- The Cuckoo\'s Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)

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- The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)

- Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)

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- Untitled (Cormoran Strike, #4)

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- Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)

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Rewiews:

Aug 13, 2016

Emily May
Rated it: did not like it
Shelves: mystery-thriller-horror, 2013
Feb 3rd 2014 - Extra things you should know:
1) This is a negative review. If you are looking for reviews that confirm what you are already
certain of (that JKR can do no wrong) here are some examples of positive reviews for you - 1, 2, 3.

2) I used some Mary Poppins gifs to make my point in this review. It seemed funny at the time. If
you find MP gifs stupid/annoying/beneath you, then please feel free to go to the reviews I linked
before.
3) I will no longer reply to comments saying I am stupid
Feb 3rd 2014 - Extra things you should know:
1) This is a negative review. If you are looking for reviews that confirm what you are already
certain of (that JKR can do no wrong) here are some examples of positive reviews for you - 1, 2, 3.

2) I used some Mary Poppins gifs to make my point in this review. It seemed funny at the time. If
you find MP gifs stupid/annoying/beneath you, then please feel free to go to the reviews I linked
before.
3) I will no longer reply to comments saying I am stupid or didn't get it. I will no longer reply to
insults of any kind or condescending suggestions that I read the book again. If you're tempted to
write something like this, save both of us some time and read the previous comments for my
answers to people like you. I have way too many unwatched episodes of Law & Order to entertain
trolls any longer.
4) I'm sorry to all the people who have been kind and respectful, whether they agreed with me or
not. You can just ignore these points.
____________________________

Things you should know: 1) Ms Rowling filled my childhood and early teen years with magic. I
love Harry Potter and I confess to only adding this book after I found out she was the author. 2) I
did not go into this with the intention to compare it to Harry Potter. I did not expect magic or
wizards and I fully anticipated this being very different to the HP books. 3) I have read and enjoyed
many mystery/crime novels in the past. My favourites being by Tana French and Gillian Flynn. So,
there was no reason why I couldn't have enjoyed this book simply because it wasn't magical
Potterland. But I didn't and, after putting a lot of thought into this, I think I finally understand why.

Here's the sad truth: I can't stand Rowling's writing when she writes for adults. I actually find it
painful to read. Let's be clear from the beginning, I started and never finished The Casual Vacancy
because the opening didn't grab me and there was something about it - something which I couldn't
put my finger on - that made it an effort to get through. A certain style to the writing which didn't
agree with me. I thought perhaps it was a one-off because I'd read all her other works and never
had a problem with her writing style. That's why I jumped at the chance to try another adult book
by Rowling and sort out what was evidently a bout of silliness on my part. What this book did give
me was an answer to why neither of Rowling's adult books worked for me.

Rowling writes in an unusual manner. It's not unique to her work for adults, Harry Potter has it too,
but the effect had on both is very different. Rowling's style of writing, including the dialogue
between characters, is formal to the point of being old-fashioned. Part of me wants to compare it
to Austen but I'm cautious of doing so because of the amount of people (usually including myself)
who might read that as a compliment. Rowling's formal style doesn't work, for me, when using it in
an adult mystery and pairing it with profanity and grisly murders. It feels out of place and weighs
down each page with tedious descriptions that use too many awkward similes, metaphors and
adjectives.

"...face the colour of corned beef..."

"...the snow fell with soft fingertip plunks..."

"...long-snouted cameras..."

Her descriptions all felt a bit off to me. And I particularly didn't like the unsophisticated use of big
words. It's like when inexperienced indie authors go crazy with thesaurus.com, using clunky words
like "exacerbated" and "exorbitant" in casual sentences that don't benefit from it. The characters in
this book never check the time or look at their watches, they "consult" their watches. Think I'm
being picky? Try reading whole pages where every sentence replaces the obvious words with
complex ones and see how far you get without your brain starting to scream. And it felt like every
single noun had at least one adjective before it. Not only that, but Rowling repeats similar
adjectives when referring to the objects again. In one sentence, we are told she climbed the "steel
stairs" and in the next she's continuing up the "metal stairs". WHY???? And also WHYYYYYY???

Another example of Rowling's old-fashioned style is her frequent use of expressions like "oh my!"
and "goodness!", expressions I'm sure some of you will recognise from Harry Potter characters.
What is this? It's like Mary Poppins or Little Women or, I don't know, Little House on the Prairie.
And maybe it works fine in all of those, same as it works fine in Harry Potter, but none of those
also had a side-helping of profanity and very adult themes. They do all, however, share the formal
language style.

And while I think people were silly to say things about The Casual Vacancy like "ohmigod this had,
like, noooooo magic and even fewer dark lords" when Rowling clearly said it was an adult mystery
book and I wanted to say to those silly people:
I still think it's entirely relevant to compare the two when looking at Rowling's writing style and the
reason why sometimes it works and sometimes it really doesn't. The formal tone with simplistic
language - like in Harry Potter - is okay, but dense descriptions and over-complicated sentences
made it hard work and tedious in this book. It's like a very formal letter with the occasional random
swear word thrown in. And it doesn't work. Not for me, anyway. The style simply doesn't fit the
content; there's swearing and murders and people rescuing others by grabbing their breasts...
I'm not even going to talk about the story beyond saying I found it a standard mystery that could
have been good if I'd not had these other reasons for not liking it. The killer is not hard to guess for
anyone familiar with crime mysteries but that isn't usually what I care about most in crime
mysteries anyway. Plus, in this case, I'm just too blinded by my dislike for the writing. *sigh* I think
it's fair to say that I'm finally done trying to enjoy Rowling's adult books.

P.S. Yes, I did get a little overexcited when I googled Mary Poppins gifs.

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Claire Thompson
I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of the writing style. It was very tedious at times, and
the formality clashed weirdly with the profanity.
I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of the writing style. It was very tedious at times, and
the formality clashed weirdly with the profanity. I don't usually mind a formal writing style, but it
was pretty jarring in this instance. I feel like the ending was worth the struggle, so I'm going to
check out the next in the series, but... we'll see how it goes. Oh, and I like the Mary Poppins gifs.

Jan 16, 2017 10:08AM

Pooh
the only reason I even finished this book is cause I have the bad habit of finishing a book no
matter how bad it is when picked up. I had higher expec
the only reason I even finished this book is cause I have the bad habit of finishing a book no
matter how bad it is when picked up. I had higher expectations. It was just straight up frustrating to
read ALL THAT TALKING and even the ending didn't give me any satisfaction. ugh. such a waste
of time.

Feb 03, 2017 11:53PM